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Government Shutdown: How Obama Rose Above
While Boehner and the Democrats squabbled over relatively meaningless cuts, the president sat back and played referee. Howard Kurtz on how White House escaped most of the blame—for now.
Howard Kurtz
Published
Apr. 8 2011
7:15PM EDT
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